We play by the rules But nobody likes to lose Some cheat But they are not very discreet They think they can outsmart those on the street
By Christopher Bearda day ago in Poets
Everybody was looking around All so busy No time to notice Yet they couldn't see that someone else walked right past
Say It Plainly Challenge - Write a poem that states its central concern directly without metaphor, indirection, or symbolic substitution.
By Denise E Lindquista day ago in Poets
the path fueled by desire forged by deceit overwrought by obligation acquired by a diamond that secured a promise
By Greer Monroea day ago in Poets
imagine feeling everything pangs of infinite gnostic hunger before, after, during learning and knowing em0ti0ns at a b0iling p0int
By ⸘jason alan‽a day ago in Poets
I try to choose my words carefully because I want you to understand me to know exactly what I mean. Yet so often you react
By Tina D. Lopeza day ago in Poets
Please Stop The War. A little girl stands at the wire, her fingers thin and dust covered, curled around the sharp barbs as if the fence is the last edge
By George’s Girl 2026 a day ago in Poets
The Wound Of Words A mouth can be a weapon, Sharper than any blade held in anger. A breath becomes a storm, And a sentence falls like iron.
Strings Upon The Mind Who holds the strings above us? Who moves the quiet fingers? There are whispers behind thought, And shadows behind choice.
My words hang, pendants under this poem, attached by a slender thread, in their chrysalis container. * They begin this life barely a caterpillar
By Natalie Wilkinsona day ago in Poets
I want to say it plainly. No metaphors. No similes. I want to praise my friends. I want to tell the world how they save me.
Arbeit Mach Freit. The letters stare at us - twists of rusted, wrought iron, flaking with age. I don’t speak German, but I know what these words mean.
By Maura Bernsteina day ago in Poets
